I'm Lucky In Love| Product Showcase @ComeOnGetCrafty

Well hello there! Happy Luck O' the Irish to you! I am up on the Come On Get Crafty blog today showcasing several fabulous products from the COGC shop.

Here is a little bit of my design and the full details and images can be found here: Come On Get Crafty

Do you celebrate anything in March? Fat Tuesday? St. Patrick's Day? A special birthday of a loved one? Even though I'm not Irish, I do enjoy the green, shamrocks, leprechauns, and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow! It just spells out fun times!!

Catch ya later! Have a great day! 

Elle's Studio Exclusive December Kit and Limited Edition Holiday Wood Veneers

…are on sale now! This month is packed with all kinds of paper crafting delights just in time for the holiday season; it is perfect for stocking stuffers, gifts under the tree (the tags in the kit are adorable for gift wrapping), and of course to Celebrate December and document it daily in your December Daily albums!

Here is December's fabulous kit:

I used the kit to not only create a PL spread, but also a mini album made with those adorable photo #hashtag tags, a gift tag, and a card! And, I still have a bunch left over to add to my December Daily!

Weather has not been cooperating lighting wise-so a few of these pics are definitely not optimum, but you get the idea. 

These photos are a collection of pics taken over several holiday seasons and are just little snippets of life documented daily in December; traditions, memories, favorite gifts, recipes, etc.

The card I made with little tags from the kit along with some jute, a Silhouette snowflake cut and a holiday flair/badge from Evalicious (I believe).

And my PL spread which features several of the tags from the kit as well as from the Noel collection:

The orange and blue cute graphics are from a Discover Card mailer that I simply cut to size and added some October Afternoon Daily Flash washi tape to. 

For this tag from the December kit, I simply stamped using the Noel Cheers stamp set ("To: Love:") available in the Elle's Studio shop, adhered a wood veneer snowflake from the limited edition holiday wood veneer sets, and added some jute/hemp. 

I love the simplicity and look of this tag with it's woodgrain accents and that it complemented my Christmas paper and woodland Christmas tree so nicely! :) :)

And then I created several cards, the first of which was super simple and fun to make. (*I ended up adding three wood veneer stars down the left side of the card as an afterthought and at night, so they are not shown here because the lighting was poor). I enjoyed using the Saltwater Confetti paper in a holiday themed way. Super fun to mix it up that way and stretch the various patterned paper collections.

 For this card, I cut out a few triangles and backed them with more patterned paper and then stitched around the perimeter. Then I misted the wood veneer stars with Gold Heidi Swapp Shine and the whole card with Mr. Huey Classic White.

I used my Silhouette to cut out the star and then back it with more patterned paper for dimension.

A little bit of stitching around the sentiments, some, star sequins, and a few pop dots to add dimension. Done!

And...I have nearly finished yet another project using these exclusive die cuts too! I will post it a bit later this week.

Thanks for hanging in there for this lengthy post! I am sad to say my Design Team term has come to an end with Elle's Studio! It has been such a pleasure designing for Elle and I feel so blessed to have been asked to design with her products! Thank you so much Elle! xo

**Just a note that the kit is on sale for a limited time for $9.99. The price goes up after midnight PST tonight to $11.99. The early bird definitely gets the discount worm, so shop early for the best deals and savings!! ;)

Happy Tuesday all!

Guest Tutorial with September's Citrus Twist Kit | Favorite Instagrams '13

Hi All!


Today I have a little tutorial up over on the Citrus Twist blog which goes through my process for creating this layout made with September's Main Kit and this playful and fun patterned paper from Webster's Pages and Allison Kreft; "Best of Times":

 This was a fun layout to make as it allowed me to get a bunch of photographs of our year documented on one page! Head on over to Citrus Twist's blog for process details on how I created it here. There is also a blog hop going on now where Citrus Twist has paired up with The Crafter's Workshop. The designers have done worked some amazing creations and techniques with these stencils! Giveaways are involved people, so be sure to hop on over here and leave some love on the designer's creations with these fun and versatile stencils!! 

 **NON KIT ITEMS: plain white (non-textured) card stock, Prima Chalk Inks (Farmer Jeans and Black Coal), 3D foam adhesive